In the words of an Orphic Hymn "Jove is both male and an immortal maid": Venus was sometimes represented with a beard, and as the Supreme Parent was indiscriminately regarded as either male or female, or as both combined, an occasional contradiction of form is not to be unexpected. The authorities attribute the contrariety of sex which is sometimes assigned to the Cornish saints as being due to carelessness on the part of transcribers, but in this case the monks may be exonerated, as the greater probability is that they faithfully transmitted the pagan legends. The Moon, which, speaking generally, was essentially a symbol of the Mother, was among some races, _e.g._, the Teutons and the Egyptians, regarded as masculine. In Italy at certain festivals the men dressed in women's garments, worshipped the Moon as Lunus, and the women dressed like men, as Luna. In Wales the Cadi, as we have seen, was dressed partially as a woman, partially as a man, and in all probability the cassock of the modern priest is a survival of the ambiguous duality of Kate or Good. In Irish the adjective _mo_--derived seemingly from Mo or Ma, the Great Mother--meant _greatest_, and was thus used irrespective of sex. The French word _lune_, like _moon_ and _choon_, is radically _une_, the initial consonants being merely adjectival, and is just as sexless as our _one_, Scotch _ane_. In Germany _hunne_ means _giant_, and the term "Hun," meant radically anyone formidable or gigantic. The Cornish for _full moon_ is _cann_, which is a slightly decayed form of _ak ann_ or _great one_, and this word _can_, or _khan_, meaning prince, ruler, _king_ or great one, is traceable in numerous parts of the world. _Can_ or _chan_ was Egyptian for _lord_ or _prince; can_ was a title of the kings of ancient Mexico; _khan_ is still used to-day by the kings of Tartary and Burmah and by the governors of provinces in Persia, Afghanistan, and other countries of Central Asia. In China _kong_ means _king_, and in modern England _king_ is a slightly decayed form of the Teutonic _konig_ or _kinig_. The ancient British word for _mighty chief_ was _chun_ or _cun_, and we meet with this infinitely older word than _king_ as a participle of royal titles such as _Cun_obelinus, _Cun_oval, _Cun_omor and the like. The same affix was used in a similar sense by the Greeks, whence Apollo was styled _Cun_ades and also _Cun_nins. The Cornish for _prince_ was _kyn_, and this term, as also the Irish _cun_, meaning _chief_, is evidently far more primitive than the modern _king_, which seems to have returned to us through Saxon channels. Prof. Skeat expresses his opinion that the term _king_ meant "literally a man of good birth," and he identifies it with the old High German _chunig_. Other authorities equate it with the Sanscrit _janaka_, meaning _father_, whence it is maintained that the original meaning of the word was "father of a tribe". Similarly the word